What is a wiki?

http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

http://www.teachersfirst.com/content/wiki/

Sample Wikis:

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

A few examples – focus on different uses:

http://elementaryvoicethreads.wikispaces.com/
http://civilwarsallie.wikispaces.com/
https://monsterproject.wikispaces.com/Mrs.+Valentine%27s+2nd
http://responsibilities.wikispaces.com/
http://terrythetennisball.wikispaces.com/
http://room2-wiki6.wikispaces.com/
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Examples+of+educational+wikis

for PD: http://www.wiki-teacher.com/

What we noticed about the wikis we looked at:
Such a variety, flexable and interactive. Some are clean and well defined and some are cluttered and need some help

• variety
• flexible
• some clean, some cluttered

Tools:

http://pbworks.com
http://www.wikispaces.com IF YOU ARE IN EDUCATION USE THIS LINK: http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
http://www.wikimatrix.org/

Some guidance:

http://itcboisestate.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/10-best-practices-for-using-wikis-in-education/
http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2010/05/tips-for-teaching-wikis-how-i-explain.html#disqus_thread
http://teachertipstraining.suite101.com/article.cfm/using_wikis_in_math_classes
http://www.teachscienceandmath.com/2010/04/28/little-known-ways-to-integrate-wikis-in-science-class/

How to edit a wiki

How to add student accounts

You can embed into your wikis many of the things we have learned about in this webinar series...
Glogs, Voicethreads, images, and Google Docs.

Many of the commoncraft videos are available captioned at http://dotsub.com. You can also caption/subtitle your own videos there.

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